02113cam a22002777 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002400070245012600094260006600220490004200286500001500328520089500343530006101238538007201299538003601371690008101407690010601488700002201594700002501616710004201641830007701683856003801760856003701798w12361NBER20180218000751.0180218s2006 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aGrabowski, David C.10aNursing Home Quality as a Public Goodh[electronic resource] /cDavid C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph J. Angelelli. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2006.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w12361 aJuly 2006.3 aThere has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a common facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique individual level panel of residents of nursing homes from seven states, we exploit both within-facility and within-patient variation in payer source and quality to examine this issue. We also test the robustness of these results across states with different Medicaid and private-pay rate differentials. Across our various identification strategies, the results generally support the idea that quality is a public good within nursing homes. That is, within a common nursing home, there is very little evidence to suggest that Medicaid-funded residents receive consistently lower quality care relative to their private-paying counterparts. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aI11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aI18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health2Journal of Economic Literature class.1 aGruber, Jonathan.1 aAngelelli, Joseph J.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w12361.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w1236141uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12361